So what started it for you? What was the first RPG you ever played that made you keep coming back? From tabletop to video game, if it's a RPG it counts.


For me it was Final Fantasy Adventure -https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Final_Fantasy_Adventure. It's actually not a part of the Final Fantasy franchise we know today but later became known as The Legend of Mana series.


I first got this game as a bundle with my old GameBoy when I was like 4 or 5. At first and for a few years the concepts of it were foreign to me and beyond my understanding. But I kept going back to it. Something about being this guy who's trying to save this girl in a world with these monsters kept calling me back. As I managed to learn and get better (and not die) I started to discover the games lore and story archs. And then there were puzzles that I would spend at times hours on, one halted me for a few years because the only hint was vague and the solution could be in was fairly large. But when I solved them I felt so accomplished.


I last played it in high school and lost it along with my old GameBoy at some point in those hectic years. I've never finished it but hope to get the remaster of it on a 3ds soon and complete my adventure.

I somehow managed to avoid getting involved with any sort of RPG until comparatively late for some reason, either on computer or otherwise. I think some kids at school were into it but they had, erm, shall we say PR issues; at college there was a healthier scene where people were obviously doing it for fun, but it was after hours and I commuted, so again I missed it. And even though a long-time player of computer games, I never encountered an RPG for a long time, seemingly always ending up with unfulfilling shooters and bite-sized adventures.

I stumbled across Oblivion by accident in 2006 having seen a brief review by the guy who did the Concerned HL2 web-comic and figured I'd give it a try as I was bored. I still had no idea it was an RPG, more a sort of free-roaming adventure, but once I got the hang of it I've never looked back.

Might and Magic III: Isles of Terra, although i played the two previous ones not long after..



RIP New World Computing, no one did RPGs quite like them.. wonder what ever happened to Jon Van Caneghem, you never really heard anything from him after NWC closed down..

Does Legend of Zelda count? If not then Baldur's Gate.

Morrowind was my first. Back in 2001 I didn't even know what "roleplaying" was. I was a shooter gamer, looking for a new game on Amazon. The screenshots looked pretty so I pre-ordered it without even knowing what the hell what it was, lol.

I was taken aback at first because almost everything was text. What the hell. And not even full text either: my character had almost no lines of dialogue. I was used to voice acting in shooters. I couldn't figure this game out. I played for a month and I thought it was okay. But it didn't grab me.

Then mods began to appear. I put a small house mod into my game. And my life has never been the same since.